A Fall Beginning

Hello again,

Once again, Su is too busy to post properly, so I'll take over. Summer is quickly coming to an end, as this is my last weekend before the fall semester starts! Oh, woe is I.

So this is what I've been doing in my dwindling days of freedom:

I went to the mall. Exciting, I know, but I haven't been to the mall for quite a while, and my friend wanted to go and shop a bit to get a gift for his little sister, so I thought...why not. Let's go the mall and soak up the deliciously chill air conditioning while we're at it. It's been hellishly hot lately, shooting up from a pleasant 70 degrees or so to a sizzling 100! 

 

(The Gary monster: fabulous in a faux fur vest.)

  

 (A crotch shot, and the modeling of my sweater. That is all.)

Didn't buy anything, as nothing really caught my interest. After integrating myself into the culture of "thrifting"....most retail stores have lost their appeal to me. 

Speaking of shopping and thrifing, I did thrift a few days ago. And it was a good day, as I found a few goodies that I readily added to all the junk in my house.

To my delight, I found these two scarves that I wanted instantly. The first one, is rather small and light, and sports a pattern of boxes and circles in the primary colors. Funky, but I like it. The second might actually help me retain some warmth this fall/winter, and has famous works of architecture on it, including the Colosseum! My desire for patterned scarves has been satiated. For now.

 

A deceivingly simple black shirt....Not. With huge see-through sleeves! It's much too big for me, and I've yet to possess the courage to wear this out in public...but, I do like it. And it was only a dollar. I couldn't resist the deal. So shoot me.

Shoes. I have too many pairs of red shoes now. (Three currently.) I've been hunting for a pair of sturdy black heels...but on my shoe hunting trips I keep finding red shoes! Terrible.

 

And a new wallet. It's boring, but I had functionality in mind after using this for an extending period of time:

Despite being very pretty and shiny, it was such a hassle to use. It was just at the right size, so that dollars were pinched at the edges went put in. And if dropped, all my cards would fly out haphazardly, but the biggest issue that gnawed at me was the fact that I couldn't put change in it properly. But my new boring leather wallet solves all that! So, hooray. :)
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And despite dreading the start of school, a part of me looks forward to it...although this semester's schedule being the most trying of all...with classes ranging from 8AM, to 9PM at night, and what really takes the cake is that I have class from Monday through Saturday! (I'll be heading out on Saturday mornings to Physical Anthropology...how lovely.) 

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But it's the vague symbolization of a fresh beginning that makes it worth looking forward to. Not to mention a guarantee of getting out of the house six days out the week.  One of the biggest things really is that I also have a job interview this first week of school at an art store (the vague symbolization solidifies a tiny bit) that has gotten me all jittery and nervous and excited and anxious and abusing run-on sentences!

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Best hopes and wishes to the all of us for the coming fall!

- CH.

1st Official Post! :D

So Hi all!

This is the first official post on SU.CH, brought by yours truly, CH.

Su is currently entering a transitory period in her life, as of this morning she has taken a plane to the Big Apple. Sooo, as I speak right now, she's probably unpacking and moving and meeting her new roomies in New York. Very exciting. :D Can't wait to hear about it.

So since I'm not doing anything particularily exciting (though these past few weeks have been very hectic)...here I am. But getting on with it, the past Wednesday was spent as a sort of last-get-together between the two of us before she had to leave. The planned adventures for the day were to hit three main destinations: the Japanese Garden in Van Nuys, Rodeo Drive in Bevery Hills, and Aux Delice (cafe) in Pasadena.

Unfortunately, we left too late in the day (about 2 or 3 in the afternoon), which I then remembered that the Japanese Garden opened only till 4 in the afternoon. :( So mid-freeway on the way to the Garden, we changed plans and decided to head to Beverly Hills. However, we missed the correct transfer on the freeway and ended up exiting onto what suspiciously looked like Chinatown. Hah!

Anyhoo, technology saved us, as Su's GPS managed to reroute us in the right direction. And not-so-soon enough (we kept experiencing minor set-backs, destination-wise), we arrived into Beverly Hills, where the cars were noticibly nicer, the asphalt smooth, and the trees green and lush.
Ah, Rodeo Drive, we have finalllyyy arrived. It was very busy. Very very busy, the place was swarmed with cars and people! Though I should've expected it, it never did occur to me just how busy it would be!

(to say at the very least, Su and I have been experiencing a theme of personalized license plates. This is the 2nd that we've encounted recently. Perhaps the driver is laughing haughtily at my lower socio-economic class citizenship? I will never know. And later, as we left, there was another car which bore a license plate that said "Nanniez." Blatant self-advertisement?)

The two of us ended up walking around a small enclosed plaza called the "Rodeo Collection." And Su began hankering for a little snack, so we dropped by a sweet shop located in the place and bought a few things, and enjoyed them in a tiny tiny corner.

After a few more hours of simply walking, a tiny bit of window shopping, we decided to leave for Pasadena and have some dinner. We'd passed by a Japanese restaurant on Rodeo Drive, spied Sashimi Salad on the menu displayed and craved it all the way back. So once we got back to good ole' Pasadena, Kabuki was our choice for dinner. There we satisfied the craving for Sashimi Salad, ordered a Sunshine roll if I remember correctly (spicy tuna roll wrapped in fresh salmon sashimi and avocado), and other servings of sashimi. We'd also tried two new things! Being the ocean eel (I usually have the freshwater eel) and beef sashimi. Didn't take any pictures because the lighting in the place was just so damn dark. But Su loved the beef sashimi, I on the other hand...would rather not eat it again. It had good flavor, but I disliked the extreme chewiness of it. I'll take my eel instead, thanks.

(edit: Huh. Didn't realized that these two pictures matched till I set them next to each other. Pure coincidence.)

And of course, Su, having a strange and unusual stomach, always has room for desert. So we finally got to the cafe Aux Delice, and ordered. I was pleasantly surprised by their chocolate eclair and creme brulee, the sweetness was just enough. I was too full from Kabuki to eat much though...

(Here, Su models her bag of cookies. Ahaha, the face was drawn on by my eyeliner as I had no pen. XD )

(we saw these RIDICULOUS things upon leaving the cafe )

So, onto the last destination...

( Yes. The two of us combined, SU.CH are really quite creepy people lurking around the staircases, so beware of us. ;] )

So we ended the day at the City Hall, which looks pretty epic at night, with all the dramatic lighting and whatnot. Su was creeping herself out, and we ended trying to take creepy pictures of each other as you can see. (Su: "Your dress is too short! Ghosts don't wear such short skirts! Your too fashionable to be a ghost! XD And me: "You're too colorful to be a ghost! Look at all those summery flowers of happiness!) But I think we did well enough in the end. ;)

Well, that concludes our first official post! :)
SU.CH is out and about.

Best wishes,
~CH.